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Originally Posted by raeanna74
I worked on a house last summer installing new siding. The homeowners were getting a grant from the state to winterize their home. The husband had a part time job but nothing more. MOST of the time we were working on the house the two homeowners were sitting in the livingroom watching TV in the middle of a filthy house with garbage everywhere and a coating of dust on everything that looked as if it had been several years since anything had been cleaned. I mean, after replacing a window and vacuuming up our mess, the floor under the window was worlds cleaner than the rest of the carpeting anywhere else. EVERY time I walked through their livingroom I saw them with a bag of chips, soda (the man was drinking from a LITER bottle, not a glass), or many other kinds of junk food. One day the two of them devored 2 frozen pizzas for lunch and complained that they were still hungry. Oh poor them, they're starving, getting money from the government and can't bother to take their dog for a walk around the block even.
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So fat people who are tidy and don't drink out of 2L bottles are okay?
If these people were thin it would be okay?
Why is the fact that these people are fat even relevant?
rb makes a very important point when he mentions the misguided importance of 'what you see in front of your face.' Obesity is an issue for most people only because of what they see - and the stereotypes they ascribe to what they see. If a thin person drinks out of a milk jug or a 2L bottle it is uncouth, at worst. If a fat person does it, it is repulsive and indicative of something more than just a bad habit. It is simply not fair and is the same sort of thinking that leads to racism, sexism and all other sorts of prejudicial -isms.
And the bottom line is, as always - it's none of your damn business anyway. (That is the collective you.)